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Video of Infuriating Bug

#1

There has been a long time bug in ST2 and now ST3 that bites me many times a day.

Essentially, using the subl shell command to launch Sublime to view a file has a high chance of showing a blank window instead of the file. I have personally reduced the reproduction to a fresh install of ST3 build 3030 on OS X 10.8.3 with these User Preferences:

{ "hot_exit": false, "remember_open_files": false }

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Although I launch and quit Sublime rapidly in the video, this is not needed for the bug to occur. It can occur first thing in the morning after the computer has been idling for 10 hours.

At least 7 other people have have mentioned this bug:


Please fix it :frowning:

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#2

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#3

Why are you shutting down the program rather than just closing the window?

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#4
  1. Quitting Sublime yields input focus to the Terminal, which closing the bogus window alone doesn’t.
  2. I don’t trust what state Sublime is in if it hasn’t started up properly.

As noted in the OP, the rapid cycling isn’t particularly relevant. I just did it to show it happening more than once without making a long video.

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#5

I’m seeing this too, immensely annoying bug.

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#6

For any who may come across this thread, please see https://github.com/SublimeText/Issues/issues/27 where I supplied a wrapper subl which works around the issue. The script itself can be found at https://raw.github.com/paulp/homebrew-extras/master/bin/subl and is most easily installed via homebrew:

brew tap paulp/extras && brew install subl.

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